Genre-Prose

Written by Author
*Fiction
A type of literature that is not true. Its
false.

*Authors Purpose
To tell a story or
To entertain through a story

*Nonfiction
A type of literature that is true. It is
not false.
*Authors Purpose

To teach a lesson
To inform about a subject

*Types (Big Ideas)

Folk literature, Novels

*Types
Autobiography, biography, exposition,
informational text, editorial

*Types (Specific)
Fables, legends, myths, folk tales, tall
talesrealistic, historical, adventure

*Sources
Newspaper, encyclopedia, books,
magazines, atlas, thesaurus, dictionary

*How written
Paragraph form

*How written
Paragraph form

Plays
Drama
Written by
Playwright

Authors Purpose
Written to be performed
by actors on a stage

Characteristics
Stage directions
Script
Dialogue
Narrator
Acts/Scenes

How written and read

Words of characters placed
next to their names.
Only the dialogue of the words
spoken by actors is read or
spoken

Poetry
Or
Poems
Written by Poet

*Authors Purpose
To entertain through rhyme and rhythm
It taps into emotions.

*Characteristics

*Types

Short lines
Written in stanzas or verse
Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme (pattern)
Rhythm
Punctuation is different
Alliteration
Figurative language

Lyric
Narrative
Haiku
Cinquain
Nursery Rhymes
Limericks
Free Verse
Concrete